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Despatch within 1 working day - free postage anywhere in the WorldRetail box including the complete full Family Tree Maker 2010 program and 6 months 'Essentials' access to Ancestry.co.uk (credit card required). Contents :-- The Family Tree Maker 2010 UK Edition CD
- Searching synchronised with ancestry.co.uk
- 97 page getting started guide
- The Family Tree Maker 2010 Little Book of Answers
- Family Tree Maker 2010 UK Training Tutorial
- 50% Discount on annual subscription to 'Your Family Tree' Magazine
- UK customised timeline and maps and registration
- 6 months 'Essentials' access to ancestry.co.uk (subscription requires activation with a credit card). The free period may be activated whenever you choose to activate. If you already have a subscription to ancestry.co.uk you will need to cancel your current subscription when it expires and activate the free trial at that point..
Users of Family Tree Maker versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2005, 2006 or 16 (including all versions of Family Tree Maker published by Banner Blue or Broderbund or The Learning Company or Mattel or Genealogy.com or Ancestry.com or Ancestry.co.uk or The Generations Network or GSP or Encore or Mindscape) may import their family files into 2010. Please click here for our detailed description and click here for FTM 2010 technical support. Ancestry UK and Australian freephone helplines available. We do not charge cards until we dispatch.
Now supplied with a free Quick Reference Card (normally £1.50). The A4 colour card has short explanations of all the screens in Family Tree Maker 2010 and is a useful guide to many of the program functions for both beginners and experienced genealogists. Please scroll down the page for detailsLAST ONE IN STOCK - WHEN IT'S GONE IT'S GONE - PLEASE SEE WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE FAMILY TREE MAKER 2010 DELUXE AS AN EXCELLENT ALTERNATIVE
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 | Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe UK Edition Ref: FTMS10DX
Despatch within 1 working day - free postage to anywhere in the WorldAn excellent package for beginners of family history for those who have never used Family Tree Maker before. The pack contains the full Family Tree Maker 2010 program and 3 months 'Essentials' access to ancestry.co.uk (credit card required). Contents :-- The Family Tree Maker 2010 UK Edition CD
- Searching synchronised with ancestry.co.uk
- 97 page getting started guide
- Family Tree Maker 2010 UK Training Tutorial
- UK customised timeline and maps and registration
- 3 months 'Essentials' access to ancestry.co.uk (subscription requires activation with a credit card). The free period may be activated whenever you choose to activate. If you already have a subscription to ancestry.co.uk you will need to cancel your current subscription when it expires and activate the free subscrition at that point.
This pack has been re-released as a 'who do you think you are?' edition. The software is the same but this pack also contains videos of clips from the BBC series and Nick Barrett's 'top 10 genealogy hints & tips' video.Users of Family Tree Maker versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2005, 2006 or 16 (including all versions of Family Tree Maker published by Banner Blue or Broderbund or The Learning Company or Mattel or Genealogy.com or Ancestry.com or Ancestry.co.uk or The Generations Network or GSP or Encore or Mindscape) may import their family files into 2010. Please click here for our detailed description, and click here for FTM 2010 technical support. Ancestry UK and Australian freephone helplines available. We do not charge cards until we despatch.
Now supplied with a free Quick Reference Card (normally £1.50). The A4 colour card has short explanations of all the screens in Family Tree Maker 2010 and is a useful guide to many of the program functions for both beginners and experienced genealogists. Please scroll down the page for details
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 | Family Tree Maker 2010 UK WDYTYA? Edition 1CD pack Ref: FTMS10WDS
Despatch within 1 working day - free postage to anywhere in the WorldThis pack contains the full Family Tree Maker 2010 program. The pack is also excellent for upgrading previous versions of Family Tree Maker.
Supplied with a free Quick Reference Card (normally £1.50). The A4 colour card has short explanations of all the screens in Family Tree Maker 2010 and is a useful guide to many of the program functions for both beginners and experienced genealogists. Please scroll down the page for details
What's New in Family Tree Maker™ 2010 - Enhanced integration with Ancestry.com - Import your Ancestry.com family tree, along with attached photos.
- Improved organization - Enjoy new ways to organize photos and other media.
- Slideshows - Create slideshows from photos in your tree.
- Family books - Publish beautiful keepsakes and books to share with friends and family.
- Standard source templates - Cite the right information every time.
- A new person view - View relationships within the context of your entire family tree.
- Scanner support - Add photos directly from your scanner.
- Family migration paths - View timelines and interactive maps highlighting events and places in your ancestors’ lives.
- Better Performance - Experience faster load times and navigation.
As well as the full FTM 2010 program the CD also contains a PDF file "Getting Started Guide". This is a 98 page booklet which may be printed out and is invaluable to new users of the program.
The CD also contains clips from the first 6 series of the popular BBC TV program "Who Do You Think You Are?"
This is an upgraded version of FTM 2008/9. Users of the earlier FTM versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2005, 2006, 16 or FTM 2008/9 (including all versions of Family Tree Maker published by Banner Blue or Broderbund or The Learning Company or Mattel or Genealogy.com or Ancestry.com or Ancestry.co.uk or The Generations Network or GSP or Encore or Mindscape) may import their family files into 2010.
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The following text is a list of most of the details released for the Family Tree Maker Program over the years with the most recent information at the top. New Version Available - Ancestry released Family Tree Maker 2010 in September 2009 See above products to learn about the new features. New Update Available - Ancestry released the following information - May 2009 For users who have already updated Family Tree Maker 2009 to Service Pack 1 (build number 18.0.0.305) a new update is now available that resolves a handful of reported issues. For information on Service Pack 1, see below
After this update is applied to your program it will show version number 18.0.0.307 under the menu options 'Help | About Family Tree Maker'.
Fixed in this update: - Task category creation and use in Person view.
- Calendars fail to display when showing February 29th.
- Memory usage grows after using "Export to One Page PDF" function.
- Book items are not retaining changes.
- Reports not being created due to brackets in facts and notes.
- Chronological facts displaying incorrectly in Individual report.
- Ahnentafel numbers displaying incorrectly in the pedigree chart.
- Images aren't added when merging information from Ancestry.com.
- Photo Album reports creating memory usage problem.
- Sorting multiple spouses for a woman working incorrectly.
- Landscape charts in a book are rotating incorrectly.
New Update Available - Ancestry released the following information - February 2009 For users who have already updated Family Tree Maker 2009 to Service Pack 1 (build number 18.0.0.305) a new update is now available that resolves a handful of reported issues.
Service Pack 1 provides a robust set of new and enhanced features requested by you, the user. For help downloading the update visit the update help page.
Below are the new features that have been added to Family Tree Maker 2009 with Service Pack 1:
For all others, you'll be pleased to find a robust set of new and enhanced features requested by you, the user.
After this update was applied to your program it would have shown version number 18.0.0.305 under the menu options 'Help | About Family Tree Maker'. - Free Download. Get the guide to these new features written by Official Guide author Tana L. Pedersen. Download Now!
- Extended Family Chart. This chart is bound to become a favorite because of its ability to display every individual in your tree—or just the people you select. Each generation appears on its own horizontal row, making it easy to quickly tell where people fall within your tree. Note: This is not a replacement for the All-in-One chart; the All-in-One will be added in a future release.
- Calendar. The calendar is back! You can create a monthly calendar that displays birthdays and anniversaries included in your tree. Personalize the calendar by choosing which individuals are included and customizing colors.
- Enhancements to Data Entry. The pedigree view has always made it easy to navigate between family members as you’re adding and editing information. But with the new data entry keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly move between family members without even lifting your fingers from the keyboard.
- Source Templates. Take the guesswork out of citing sources with new source templates. Family Tree Maker has created source templates based on the QuickCheck models in Elizabeth Shown Mills’s book Evidence Explained. Can’t figure out how to document the tombstone photo you found at FindaGrave.com? Family Tree Maker has a source template for that—and more.
- Desktop Book-Building Functionality. By popular demand the book-building tool is back. You can create your own family history book complete with charts, reports, photos, personal stories, and an automated table of contents and index.
- See all product features
Family Tree Maker 2009 - New features:
Released August 2008 - On Sale 15 September 2008 This latest release of the program is a culimination of all the improvements that have been made to Family Tree Maker 2009 over the last year and includes features, charts and other enhancements since the last Service Pack update in May 2008. The result is a vastly superior program to the one that was released a year ago.
Ancestry have released the following description for Family Tree Maker 2009.
- Create essential genealogy reports (Register and Ahnentafel)
- Share your family tree with several new charting options: hourglass, bow tie, and fan. You can also use custom templates or design your own
- Streamline your data entry with one-click editing of individuals from any workspace in the software
- Simplify sourcing with "cut and paste" source citations
- Track AND print your ancestors' migration paths on interactive maps
- Enjoy faster startup times and improved file performance
- Find your ancestors more easily with improved Web Search. You can even choose to ignore irrelevant results.
And don't forget the features you've come to rely on:- Dynamic user interface that lets you quickly switch between important features
- The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestry File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
- Powerful sourcing tools that let you document AND rate each of your citations
- Interactive maps and lists that give you a bird's-eye view of where members of your family come
- Place authority database of more than 3 million names that helps you standardize your place entries
- Photo AND file management features so you can easily incorporate all types of media files into your charts and reports
- Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events
- Easy-to-use tools for merging duplicate individuals, calculating dates, creating to-do lists, and more
The blog from Russell Hannig dated 28th August 2008 contained the following information: The Family Tree Maker team is pleased to announce the release of Family Tree Maker 2009. We are excited about the new features and user requested tools included in this version. Over the past year, we have been making patches available that include additional functionality and features that our customers have asked for. In addition, the features included in the 2009 version come primarily from our Family Tree Maker 2008 users, showing us what features should be released next and testing the product to make sure it is working at top efficiency. We had more than 300 beta testers for Family Tree Maker 2009. We appreciate this active and ongoing participation. Take a look at what’s new since the original release of Family Tree Maker 2008. Features available for the first time in Version 2009 are marked with an asterisk (*).
Genealogy Reports - Register and Ahnentafel full reports
- Register and Ahnentafel simplified reports*
- Data Errors report*
Charts - Vertical Pedigree Chart
- Hourglass Chart*
- Horizontal Hourglass Chart*
- Bow Tie Chart*
- 180-Degree Fan Chart*
- Family Tree Chart*
Publishing Functionality - Book layouts for main charts
- Saved settings in charts/reports
- Saved templates in charts
- Preparer information included in chart footers
- Enhancements to the RTF export
- Ability to show siblings within charts*
- Single-page PDF export from charts*
- Ability to add boxes in charts to a “Marked Box” category and modify box settings for these boxes*
Improved Data Manipulation Tools - Change Place Name tool
- Find and Replace tool
- Streamlined data entry from any workspace using a full-featured edit person window*
- Ability to set spouse order (Person menu)*
- Ability to order media items for an individual*
- Find Individual tool (Edit menu)*
- Find Duplicate Individuals tool (Edit menu)*
- Ability to update multiple facts at one time (From Manage Facts or Fact options): change fact types, move description to place or place to description, mark as private*
- Insert foreign language characters into text fields*
Improvements within Research Tools - Automatic simple backup at shutdown
- Ability to ignore hints*
- Option to delete existing facts in individual and Web merge*
- Inclusion of married names, AKAs, and titles in index*
Improvements to Import - Improved name parsing
- OLE objects (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF) from previous FTM versions*
- Import previously ignored hints lists*
Improvements to Places - Track and print your ancestors’ migration paths on interactive maps*
- Places toolbar that allows for researching place names not currently in the file and pinpointing places such as libraries, churches, and courthouses*
Improvements to Sources - Copy and paste source citations
* New in Family Tree Maker 2009 Here’s what’s coming:
In addition, we are currently working on new features that will be available as part of Family Tree Maker 2009—as soon as they become available: - Book Building
- Better Ancestry Member Tree Integration
- Improved Relationship Calculator
- Source templates based on Evidence Explained by source expert, Elizabeth Shown Mills
- And many others…
Thank you to all of the Family Tree Maker community for their loyalty through the years. We are committed to making Family Tree Maker the best desktop software for doing your family history. Thank you,
The Family Tree Maker Team
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For information about Family Tree Maker 2009 please click here
Features in Family Tree Maker 2008
Please be wary if you are tempted to order Family Tree Maker 2008 on the Ancestry (USA) website in response to an e-mail. The $39.95 does not include the $13 international shipping charge which you do not see until after you have entered your card details. Also, the package is likely to be subjected to 15% VAT on the $52.95 when it enters the UK because it is over the £18 threshold, and there will also be a £4.50 Royal Mail charge for collecting the VAT, plus a trip to Royal Mail to collect the package and pay the VAT and the £4.50. Our price for the UK Edition is only £19.50 with free delivery which is about £15 less than the total USA price for the USA Edition.
Family Tree Maker 2008 has been totally rewritten from the ground up. There is no code from previous versions in FTM 2008. Family Tree Maker 2008 should be regarded as a new program rather than an upgrade from previous versions. Family Tree Maker 2008 sports a completely redesigned interface and database that makes it easier to enter, view and edit information. The Check For An Update facility in the Help menu is expected to provide free downloads of more features over the coming weeks and months (you will receive automatic notification of program updates if you opt for "Automatically check for program updates when connected to the internet" option in the Tools menu - Options). The new programing code allows for optional plug-in extra features that may be provided by third parties in the future.
Workspaces
There are seven areas or workspaces within Family Tree Maker 2008 -- Plan, People, Places, Media, Sources, Publish, and Web Search. The Menu items are: File, Edit, View, Source, Tools, Help. All of the areas except for Plan have resizable panes that may be dragged or collasped. Person Notes, Fact Notes, Source Notes and Media Notes can all be formatted and privatised.Plan
Plan is the area that you see when you start Family Tree Maker 2008. There are options to create a new tree (previously called family file) from scratch or to import data from any of these sources- Family Tree Maker .ftw or .fbk family files created by any previous version (including all versions of Family Tree Maker published by Banner Blue or Broderbund or The Learning Company or Mattel or Genealogy.com or Ancestry.com or Ancestry.co.uk or The Generations Network or GSP or Encore or Mindscape)
- GEDCOM files
- Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
- Legacy Family Tree
- The Master Genealogist
People
A new People interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet. The Family tab of the People view is the main working area of Family Tree Maker 2008; combining the old family card, family view, pedigree view and editing areas, all into one single screen that is far more intuitive and much easier and faster to use. The editing area is customisable, so you can now have birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial edit boxes all available at the same time and they will always be there for you in the future! In fact you can customise this area to include or exclude whichever edit boxes you wish. Great!There are four work areas in the Family tab, each of which may be resized to suit your requirements, allowing wonderful flexibilty. - The Index pane down the left hand side displays the index of people that may be searched, filtered and sorted in many ways. Hovering the mouse over a person displays the person's brief details allowing easy identification. Also included are Bookmarks (select individuals who are of special interest to you) and History (displays all of the items you have edited or changed). The Index pane may be hidden from view if desired.
- The Pedigree pane upper centre replaces the traditional FTM family card/family view, displaying up to 5 generations in a resizable compact area. Navigation and facilities similar to the 2005 and 2006 pedigree views are retained. The Lower pane may be raised or lowered as desired to reveal more or less of the pedigree pane to suit your preference. Ancestry Hints is a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree.
- The Lower pane displays the details of the person selected and their spouse, together with the details of their children.
- The Editing pane on the right is where most of the editing takes place. This pane is customisable to display the editing boxes that you choose to display and use. This width of this pane may be adjusted to almost full screen or almost hidden from view.
The second tab in the People area is the Person tab, providing even more editing flexibility. Within this tab there are three options to work with: Facts, Timeline and Relationships. The lower pane is available to record separate Person Notes and Research Notes. The notes area has much more flexibility in style and presentation including bold, italic, underline, bulllets, symbols, colour, spellcheck (nine spellcheck dictionaries to choose from including United Kingdom English and Australian English), and text note size. Also available in the lower pane is an Add Task facility (reminders of things that you need work on). You can schedule tasks to be due on a certain date or leave them open. You can also assign a priority to tasks so you can see what needs to be completed first. There are two types of tasks: general tasks and person tasks; with options to record description, category/location, due date, priority and completion. The timelines highlight personal, family and world events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives. Also provide is a robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list.Places
Now this is really exciting! Dynamic mapping of the places where your ancestors came from via Microsoft Virtual Earth within Family Tree Maker. The Places area incorporates a place authority of more than 3 million place names worldwide including a large number of UK parishes. Click on a place in the list of places in the left hand pane and see displayed a list of the people in your database that are associated with that place in the right hand pane. At the same time in the centre pane a map of the area is displayed that may easily be zoomed to street, road and building level! Choose between normal mapping, aerial photography (bird's eye view), or a hybrid of the two. Street and road names are displayed. Click the 3D button and 'fly' around the area where your ancestor's lived in 3D colour. It's really neat and very impressive!The place authority is also a great tool to clean up and standardise all of your Family Tree Maker places. Places and Descriptions are now separated which is much more logical and far easier to manage.Media
Family Tree Maker gathers together all of your photographs, images and other media into one place. No more hunting around individual scrapbooks to find where you put that photo. The Media area *links* your media in from the place where it is saved on your hard disk. Multiple links can be created from one photo to numerous people. The result is no more enormous FTM file sizes because the media is not saved within the FTM file. The FTM 2008 backup facility however has the option to automatically backup your media at the same time as backing up your data. Importing family files from previous versions of Family Tree Maker automatically links your scrapbook media into the Media area. Images can be linked to individuals, facts and sources.Sources
It is extremely important to record the sources of all the information that you find during your family history research. The Sources area makes this task really easy. Sources and Citations are now linked, eliminating the need for most copying and pasting. The left hand pane lists your Source Groups that may be sorted and searched by All Source-Citations, Source Titles, Repository or People. The right hand pane has edit boxes for Source Titles, Citation Detail, Citation Text and Reference Notes. The lower pane has a list of people that are linked to each source, Notes, links to media such as census images, photographs, audio and video clips etc. Standardised source rating criteria encourages you to assign a confidence score to each piece of information that you gather.Publish
The Publish area includes the various types of output from Family Tree Maker 2008, including:- Charts (known as trees in previous versions of Family Tree Maker)
- Pedigree Chart, Descendant Chart, Relationship Chart
- added 27nov2007 Hourglass Chart, Vertical Pedigree Chart
- Genealogy Reports
- added 27nov2007 Genealogy Register Report, Ahnentafel Report
- Person Reports
- Individual Report, Custom Report, Research Note Report, LDS Ordinances, Task List
- Relationship Reports
- Family Group Sheet, Kinship Report, Marriage Report, Parentage Report, Outline Descendant Report
- Place Reports
- Media Reports
- Media Items, Photo Album, Media Usage Report
- Source Reports
- Source Usage Report, Source Bibliography, Documented Facts
There are many Share/Export options including a new Send To E-mail facility in formats that include HTML, PDF, CSV, RFT, BMP, EMF, WMF, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF. Heirloom quality books are created using the new Ancestry Press self-publishing tool. The Publish area has a mini-navigation area at the top making it easy to refocus on another person in your tree.Web Search
Web Searching is tightly integrated with Ancestry.co.uk and is vastly improved. Our own testing confirms that Web Searching for UK people via Family Tree Maker 2008 on Ancestry is very good indeed, assuming that you have suitable basic information to start with. Integration with rootsweb.com, genealogy.com, google.com, yahoo.com and search.live.com is also provided. The powerful Web Clipping facility allows the capture of text from *any* website that you care to visit - all within Family Tree Maker. Merging of information from any of those websites with your own data is optional and is fully under your control. The Browser pane allows you to visit any website. The Web Search area has a mini-navigation area at the top making it easy to refocus on another person in your tree.The Future
Please bear in mind that Family Tree Maker 2008 is a totally new program and is a work in progress. The publishers have announced that some features that are currently missing in 2008 compared with previous versions will be added in the coming months via free download updates.
Service Patch 2
Important. Update 28th November 2007. Service Patch 2 Revision 2 (version 17.0.0.559) has been released incorporating more reports, more charts, performance enhancements and bug fixes. If you are not notified of the availability of SP2 when you start Family Tree Maker 2008, please click the Help menu and Check For Update. If you receive a message that your version is already up to date, click the Help menu again and About Family Tree Maker. Check the version number. If it is not 17.0.0.559 please visit here for full instructions on how to obtain and install SP2.
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Service Pack 3 - Enhancements and New features:Released May 2008 Note: This is available on CD from TWR Computing for £2.95 for those customers stil on dial-up accounts who do not want to download directly from the internet.
- Major enhancements to performance, improvements including:
- Startup time
- File load time
- Report/Chart creation time
- General navigation
- Memory usage
- Major enhancements to stability throughout the program
- Book layout in charts for:
- Descendant Chart
- Hourglass Chart
- Vertical Pedigree Chart
- Ability to create saved versions for all charts and reports
- Ability to apply predefined templates for charts
- Ability to save user created templates for charts
- Enhancements to place interactions, including:
- New Change Place Name dialog allowing for easier changing of place name and description information
- Double-clicking and right clicking additions to the Places workspace
- New Find-and-Replace dialog with additional ability to search with wildcards and to specify where to search in and enhanced information showing where the item was found.
- Major enhancements to the Analyze/Compact file functionality
- Outline Descendant report has Items to Include options
- Inclusion of Married Name AKA and Titles in index
- Automatic simple backup at shutdown
- Ability to turn off place authority searching when entering place names
- Enhancements to the RTF export
- Ability to add boxes in charts to a “Marked Box” category and modify box settings for these boxes
- Preparer Information in the footer for charts
- Options to include spouses and children in filtering and exporting of people
Major enhancements to Sources including People Workspace - Copy and paste source-citations. After copying (from source-citation dialog or sources toolbar), you can paste a duplicate source-citation or a link to the existing one via the “New” source menu.
- Ability to copy source-citation at creation for pasting
Sources Workspace - Double-clicking on a source title in the “Sources” workspace displays the “Edit Source Title” dialog for easier editing of sources in this view.
- Double-clicking on a repository in the “Sources” workspace displays the “Edit Repository” dialog for easier editing of repositories in this view.
- Right-mouse menus have been added to the left panel.
Repository Dialog - The “Repository” dialog is resizable.
Source Title Dialog - The “Source Title” dialog includes a usage button that displays usage for that source (This is redundant in the “Source” workspace, but useful elsewhere).
- The "Source Title" dialog is resizable.
Source-Citation Dialog - The "Source-Citation" dialog is resizable
- The "Source-Citation"dialog includes a reference to the number of linked facts.
- Addition of a copy button (see copy and paste source-citations above).
Find Source-Citation Dialog - The option to "Link To Existing Source-Citation" is changed to “Use Existing Source-Citation." Then there are two buttons in the resulting "Find Source-Citation" dialog. After finding and selecting a source-citation the user can choose "Link To Citation” or “Copy New Citation”. The link option does the same as “OK” did before and the new copy option adds another easy way to create a duplicate source-citation.
- Performance when listing by people is greatly improved.
- The “View by” setting is remembered so that if you view by source title for example, it comes up that way the next time.
- Left and right panels are sized proportionally when the dialog is resized.
List of some of the higher priority bugs that have been fixed Charts - Made default settings more like FTM 16 default settings.
- Changes made in Box, Border, and Line Options don’t force a chart reload unless necessary.
- Export to image decreases the resolution (DPI) of the image if the image is very large.
- Charting uses less memory.
- Charting draws faster.
- Saved chart dates and times work for international dates.
- The User Interface recognizes metric regions and sizes are shown in centimeters or millimeters for Metric regions.
- Improved drawing and scaling of the “Advanced” layout for Standard Pedigree charts in Poster layout.
- Background colors stay in synchronization which background images changes and vice-versa.
- Facts that are description centric, such as AKA, now default to options that are meaningful.
- Miscellaneous UI changes such as hiding the “Advanced” button when in book layout or not in Standard Pedigree charts.
- Improved loading time for Box, Border, and Line Options dialog, Fonts Dialog, and Page Setup.
- Improved pedigree line drawing for special conditions such as parent box smaller than child box in a Standard Pedigree.
- Improved the restoring of box sizes on reload or opening a saved chart.
- File dialog restores to last directory used.
- Quick Print Dialog did not have the correct values in the header control.
- Selected boxes in charts have “more emphasis” to show that they are selected.
- Improved displaying of all Shared Facts.
- Improved drawing speed and memory usage for pedigree lines in the pedigree chart.
- Improved drawing of pedigree lines in the pedigree chart by calculating the overlap and thus finding a new “center” point.
- The <LINE> “fact” or divider line can now be a different color and width than the pedigree line. This makes it possible to do some nice contrast inside of the person box.
- If a fact is changed it is picked up in the chart. The chart doesn’t reload and often the fact change is such that this doesn’t matter. If the chart does need to be regenerated there is now a generate button too.
- Saving of POSTER size images of all types of charts. (Export Image)
- Gradient box fill ability. Note that some printers can’t handle gradient and transparent at the same time.
- Throttle the chart size after 14 generations for Pedigree charts in poster layout. All other charts have a 99 generation limit now. Charts over 13 generations will set the spacing to collapsed.
Reports - RTF output is not easily editable
- Photo album excludes non-image media items.
- Title includes primary person automatically for some reports
- Ahnentafel Report - blank lines between end notes
- Ahnentafel Report - disappears when checking Use short biographies
- Ahnentafel report - name and sex fact notes don’t display
- Export to RTF, data fields are underlined
- Individual Report - Name options don’t apply to all names
- Outline Descendant Report - export to RTF includes weird characters
- Outline Descendant Report - Items to include, include blank facts not working
- Outline Descendant Report - name of focus person not in title
- Place Usage Report - missing fact labels
- Register Report - Also Known As not displaying correctly
- Register Report - names in all caps
- Register Report - not seeing Name fact note
- Register Report and Ahnentafel Report - information repeating
- Report Titles not updating
- Spouse sorting in individual report is fixed
- Civil and Canon values in Kinship report is fixed
- Individual report sorting spouses incorrectly
- Notes do not appear correctly in reports
- Bold, Italic, & Underline in notes don’t appear in Individual Report
- Photo album report – images per row setting not working
- Documented Facts Report – non-preferred facts not appearing, their sources are
- Photo Album Report - blanks out with non-image media items
- Photo Album Report - sorting images (images are now sorted by caption and filename)
- Kinship Report - sorting individuals
- Register Report - crash saving report
- Research Note Report - not displaying bold, underline & italic in notes
- Relationship Report not working in People module
- Photo Album not working in People module
- Individual report displays preferred name for all name facts.
- Fixed numbering problem in Outline Descendant report
Find and Replace - Clicking stop before results are found messes up what gets found and results in a crash
- Can’t find words with punctuation at the end
- Certain characters (<>) caused the found text to not be displayed
- Crash navigating to people collection after “Go To” from find and replace
- Change all place names dialog pops up even if there is only 1 fact associated with a place
- Can click find and replace when there is no tree loaded
Copy/Paste Sources - Pasting Link/Copy to a source causes problems with the reference note
- Pasting a duplicate source doesn’t copy the source note
- Paste option not active on facts that have no data
- Ability to copy source from Manage Source view added
File Merge - Marriage fact of preferred spouse was shown for all spouses in the host file
- Improved people matching
- File merge creates multiple relationships for the same person
- FTM crashes when merging creates a recursive relationship (i.e. child is his own father)
- Improved matching accuracy and performance when files are derivatives of each other
Web Merge - Crash when changing a place name in web search and then merging
- Clicking on “Create Page Archive” before Web Search is completely loaded crashes FTM
- Source not added to sex fact if default merge settings were changed
- Added drop-down to select a different source title when editing source
- Web Merge Wizard dialog doesn’t display the correct instructions when merging images and notes (but no facts/people)
- Crash when editing a screen scraped place name and then trying to merge
- Multiple copies of the same media being saved to the media folder when merging the same Ancestry.com record multiple times
General - People filter updated to be more correct
- Crash after compact then backing up fixed
- Gedcom export was doing certain fact types (description only, etc.)
- Export of living people no longer uses Living as their name. It keeps the name but hides all other facts.
- “Approximately” or “Approx.” should be recognized as “Abt. for dates
- Britain resolve place name selection of United Kingdom clears field
- If the history is empty it shows the same names as index
- Program crashes when you delete a person from the History panel
- Edit source dialog/Reference note doesn’t display citation text when is should
- Children sorting in family panel fixed
- Change place name issues resolved (crashes when adding just description and other problems)
- Modified reference notes correctly imported
- Scrolling problem in source list in person view
- “Approximately” or “Approx.” now recognized as “Abt. for dates
- Relationship information now showing up in English installs in non-English speaking countries
- Crash when merging two people together, sometimes
- Crash when changing person’s name due to Operating System audio driver crash
- Crash when adding sources – it may crash one more time, then on restart fix the problem
- Crash when adding media types .gif and .ICO
- Fixes to resolving place names without a city name
- Non-preferred facts show up in reports
- Problems importing sources from FTM 2005 files
- Marriage data not showing in hourglass chart
- Ahnentafel numbers are not correct
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- Export not working when “Include private Facts” deselected.
- Exporting a subset of people still includes all places, sources, etc.
- Resolve All Dialog doesn’t append to description it replaces the existing descry
- Register Report shows same info for multiple spouses
- Alternate names do not appear in the Family Group Sheet
- Error importing v2005 file
- Pressing the ESC key clears the data in a date or description field
- AKA appears out of order in charts and reports
- Media Item Report Export to .PDF not working correctly
- Printing a Pedigree Chart from People isn’t working
- Moving a place to a description then moves the description to the place
- Pedigree, Descendant, Hourglass, & Vertical Pedigree Charts - settings not saved
- Import of media caption and description is lost via PAF import
- Source not always being added from Web Merge
- Unknown dates not exporting to Gedcom
- Can’t delete project after running media report - media item held open
- UNK should be recognized when entered as a date as Unknown
- Importing GEDCOM file with normal tags
- Duplicate people showing up in relationship view
"In the coming months we will be adding many new features and templates to the Ancestry Press book building tool. We are also working to improve the integration between Family Tree Maker and Ancestry Press." "We are developing a desktop book building tool that we will provide free of charge to all Family Tree Maker 2008 customers next summer (2008). This tool will allow you to print your book from home or, if you prefer, create a PDF that you can have professionally printed and bound through the Ancestry Press book printing service or another vendor of your choice."Family Tree Maker 2008 Video Tutorials
Introduction A 1 minute 45 seconds
Introduction B 1 minute 30 seconds (this link no longer works and will be updated soon)
Build 6 minutes 31 seconds (this link no longer works and will be updated soon)
Search 6 minutes 56 seconds (this link no longer works and will be updated soon)
Collaborate 7 minutes 7 seconds (this link no longer works and will be updated soon)
Publish 3 minutes 43 seconds (this link no longer works and will be updated soon)
The references to ancestry.com in the videos also apply to ancestry.co.uk and to ancestry.com.auRecommended system requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
1GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) processor
400Mb free hard disk space for installation
512Mb of RAM
32X CD/CD-R drive (required for installation)
1024 x 768 monitor resolution
All online features require Internet accessThe Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2008 by Tana Pedersen Lord - 335 pages - £16.95 with free deliveryBuy Previews
Contents 8 pages
Chapter 11 Working With Trees First page
Creating A New Tree Page 258
Entering Your Information From Scratch Page 258This in-depth guide will help you use Family Tree Maker 2008 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for years. Start building your tree by entering what you already know. Then follow the author's step-by-step instructions to locate more information about your ancestors online, add photographs and rich media files, and design charts and reports to display and share. Learn the why, how, and when of using its most popular features; get advice for mastering advanced tasks; and read quick lessons that will make your family history research fast and fun. All in a fully indexed format complete with screenshots and straightforward instructions written specifically for the new Family Tree Maker 2008. The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2008 — your complete guide to creating a family history you and your family will treasure for years to come. Limitations Of Family Tree Maker 2008
(as notified by GSP/Ancestry.co.uk/TGN)- It is not possible to download an existing Ancestry.co.uk tree [this refers only to trees constructed online on the Ancestry website] except as a GEDCOM file where records, photographs and comments are not included [please read on for information about importing Family Tree Maker family files]
- Ancestry.co.uk trees can be uploaded from Family Tree Maker 2008, but Family Tree Maker 2008 cannot merge in new changes added to the desktop client - or sync with updates made by family online
- Family Tree Maker family files from any previous version may be imported, but the import does not include books or OLE objects
- Books cannot be created within Family Tree Maker 2008 (use the free integrated linked online facility Ancestry Press instead)
- OLE objects in older versions of Family Tree Maker need to be saved and re-linked into Family Tree Maker 2008
- Family Tree Maker 2008 does not include ability to upload to Genealogy.com websites that was available in previous versions
"Unfortunately, because the software has been completely redesigned using a new code base, we cannot provide full support for books created in previous versions of Family Tree Maker. If you have produced a book in Family Tree Maker 2005, 2006 or 16, you will eventually be able to export a PDF version of your book to Ancestry Press to have it professionally printed; however, you will not be able to edit your book in Ancestry Press, Family Tree Maker 2008 or future versions."
Technical Support
Family Tree Maker 2008 will install itself completely separately from previous versions. You may therefore continue to use your old version, and even use both versions at the same time if you wish. It is recommended that you retain your old version while you are getting to know 2008. The new code and database in FTM 2008 benefits from the power and faster speed available in modern computer hardware.Important. Update 28th November 2007. Service Patch 2 Revision 2 (version 17.0.0.559) has been released incorporating more reports, more charts, performance enhancements and bug fixes. If you are not notified of the availability of SP2 when you start Family Tree Maker 2008, please click the Help menu and Check For Update. If you receive a message that your version is already up to date, click the Help menu again and About Family Tree Maker. Check the version number. If it is not 17.0.0.559 please visit here for full instructions on how to obtain and install SP2.If you are encountering difficulty importing your Family Tree Maker family file into 2008 it is recommended that you first compact your family file in your old version of Family Tree Maker. For example in FTM 2006 and v16 go to the Tools menu and Compact File. In other versions use the keyboard keys CTRL+ALT+C for file compression, and CTRL+ALT+SHFT+UpArrow for file checking. A list of helpful shortcut keys may be viewed here.If you are receiving messages that you are not connected to the internet while using FTM 2008, or if the internet functions in 2008 such as the maps and web searching do not work, please take a look at your firewall settings and allow Family Tree Maker to access the internet.The Ancestry UK freephone helpline telephone number is 0800 404 9723. The Ancestry knowledge base sections for Family Tree Maker 2008 may be found here and here.Please use this form to send feedback to The Generations Network/Ancestry (the owners and publishers of Family Tree Maker) concerning Family Tree Maker 2008, for example enhancement requests and comments.There was a Webinar hosted by the Family Tree Maker team of The Generations Network/Ancestry (the owners and publishers of Family Tree Maker) that took place on 25th October 2007. Please visit here for full details and registration. Note: This excellent webinar has taken place, but is still available for viewing until 24th January 2008.Please click here for our complete Family Tree Maker technical support page.
Family Tree Maker 2008 UK Edition Release Date InformationUsers of earlier versions of Family Tree Maker may be confused about the origins and version numbering of the program, so we have produced a quick potted version of its history.- Jan 1994 - First version launched by Banner Blue Software
- Oct 1994 - Second version published by Banner Blue Software
- May 1995 - Banner Blue Software was acquired by Broderbund
- Oct 1985 - saw the launch of Family Tree Maker v3
- Aug 1998 - Broderbund acquired by The Learning Company and Family Tree Maker v5 published
- May 1999 - The Learning Company was acquired by Mattel Incorporated and Family Tree maker v6 published.
- Autumn 1999 - Mattel formed Genealogy.com
- April 2003 - Genealogy.com was acquired by MyFamily.com and in the late Summer Family Tree Maker v11 was published.
- August 2004 - MyFamily.com launched Family Tree Maker 2005 in the USA.
- October 2004 - MyFamily.com launched Family Tree Maker 2005 UK Version.
- September 2005 - MyFamily.com/GSP launched Family Tree Maker 2006 UK version.
- August 2006 - MyFamily.com published an upgrade to Family Tree Maker v16 in the USA to correct a few minor problems. This version is best avoided by UK users as it only searches USA records on Ancestry.com
- September 2007 - The Generations Network/GSP launched Family Tree Maker 2008 UK version.
- December 2007 - Service Pack 1 (free download) released to upgrade FTM 2008
- February 2008 - Service Pack 2 (free download)released to upgrade FTM 2008
- May 2008 - Service Pack 3 (free download) released to upgrade FTM 2008
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